The last few weeks of pregnancy can feel as long as the whole pregnancy combined. Your body aches, swells and feels like nothing more than a human incubator. The haze of the in-between life as it is now, and how it will be is all consuming. Here are some ways to spend the last days before you give birth.

1.Shop (online) for your postpartum care

The nursery is ready, and everything is perfect for your babe on the way. But what about you? It’s the part of bringing a baby in to the world that not one wants to talk about. The post part recovery can be painful and exhausting. Having the items you need to stay comfortable is essential to your healing process.

2.Make your labor playlist

3.Listen to podcasts or read a book

When your little one is here you won’t be popping in headphones and diving in to your favorite podcasts. You will be trying to eat, shower or sleep… wait, what is sleep? Try to relax and enjoy this time in between. And the much easier said than done, try to relax and take in this special time of life that is in transition.

TVA Breathing & Pelvic Floor Exercises are recommended to be performed daily.

HOW TO PERFORM TVA BREATHING: As you inhale expand the belly, filling the lungs with air, allowing the ribcage to expand. When you take a breath in, you have to think of your diaphragm as lowering down. It is a dome-shaped muscle and during inhalation, it flattens towards the bottom of your lungs as the lungs expand and your rib basket (thorax) widens.

Exhale breathing of your air out, and hugging baby in and squeeze and lift the muscles of the pelvic floor. When you breathe out, the diaphragm pulls up towards the heart as a relaxation response of the lungs returning to their normal size (after becoming larger during inhalation).

TVA BREATHING: Diaphragmatic breathing turns on the parasympathetic nervous system and sends de-stressing signals to every cell in the body. ⁣ ⁣Breathing this way also allows your Diaphragm, the muscles of the pelvic floor, transverse abdominis [your corset muscle], and your multifidus [ the TA’s assistant in spine stabilization] to regulate intra-abomdinal pressure [ one of the biggest culprits in frequent “pregnancy side-effects”]⁣ Keep you core strong throughout your pregnancy with this prenatal safe abdominal exercise.⁣

My Fit Mom Method program provides prenatal safe workouts you can do in 10-30 minutes from home. Plus provides a nutritional recommendation to help you stay in a healthy weight range.